Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make -- bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake -- if… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas. — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. — Robert F. Goheen Copy Share Image
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter. — William Jones Copy Share Image
I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
